I have to admit, I am not an expert on the US involvement in Afghanistan, likely no one person is. But, I\u2019m not calling for withdrawal of US forces here… I really think now that maybe the coalition needs more time there to protect villagers, in the absence of ability yet, to build a new hierarchy. The US and German nation should not carry burden alone, of protecting Afghans who turn away from native forces that have dominated their lives, safety, and livelihood. [update 2014. My understanding is that Afghanistan is now a money pit. Somehow the coalition seems to be failing its mission.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have to admit, I am not an expert on the US involvement in Afghanistan, likely no one person is. But, I\u2019m not calling for withdrawal of US forces here… I really think now that maybe the coalition needs more …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellness","category-news-and-politics","category-organizations","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.film-shorts.tv\/wpress.cfonseca160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}